In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

Users and developers have hailed Linux as the operating system that "just works," celebrating it for decades as a symbol of open source strength, speed, ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

If you've used Windows for long enough, you'll know that it tends to develop "crud" over the months. It accumulates from a ...

Which Linux distributions will rise above the competition in 2026 to dethrone the old guard? These are my picks.

This course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux kernel drivers for Embedded devices. The Yocto build system is introduced, which ...

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Mohammad Shuaib Siddique knows his way around the guts of modern computers. He’s a senior systems software architect who ...